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This volume of new essays offers a substantial, systematic and detailed analysis of how various Aristotelian doctrines are central to and yet in important ways transformed by Kant's thought. The essays present new avenues for understanding many of Kant's signature doctrines, such as transcendental idealism, the argument of the Transcendental Deduction, and the idea that moral law is given to us as a 'fact of reason,' as well as a number of other topics of central importance to Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy, including self-consciousness, objective validity, the Principle of Sufficient Reason, virtue, and the moral significance of the consequences of action. Two introductory essays outline the volume's central exegetical commitments and anchors its approach in the immediate historical context. The resulting volume emphasizes the continuities between Kant's Critical philosophy and the Scholastic-Aristotelian tradition, and presents, for the first time, a synoptic overview of this new, 'Aristotelian' reading of Kant.

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Author:   Wolfram Gobsch (Universität Zürich) ,  Thomas Land (University of Victoria, British Columbia)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781009530484

ISBN 10:   1009530488
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   22 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction Wolfram Gobsch and Thomas Land; 1. The 'Aristotle of Königsberg'? Kant and the Aristotelian mind Corey Dyck; 2. Kant's hylomorphism and the thing-in-itself Matthew Boyle; 3. Truth, falsity, and the capacity to judge Stephen Engstrom; 4. Reason's supreme principle, the principle of sufficient reason, and the faculty of reason Karl Schafer; 5. Form and matter in Kant's account of self-consciousness Janum Sethi; 6. Energeia in Kant's critical philosophy Houston Smit; 7. Rational powers and the 'fact of reason' Andrews Reath; 8. The ancient backgroudn to Kant's conception of virtue Melissa Merritt; 9. The end of action and its circumstances: Kant on claiming and taking responsibility for the consequences Carla Bagnoli; 10. Kant on habit and time Alexandra Newton; References; Index.

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Wolfram Gobsch is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has published on the dialectic of pure reason, theoretical and practical, its development from Kant to Hegel, its ancient roots, and its significance for contemporary debates in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and metaethics. Thomas Land is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, Canada. He has published in journals including Synthese, Kantian Review, and Journal of the History of Philosophy, and co-edited Transparency and Apperception (2020), which traces the Kantian roots of a contemporary debate in the philosophy of mind.

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